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Use your Android smartphone/tablet to control your Roku player.

Voice search depends on your phone/google to fully understand what you spoke and pass that to the app and then the app sends that as a command to the roku. For example if you cannot successfully use the google voice for google searches then you might have difficulty using the voice feature with this app.

With the recent update i enabled the feature to be able to install the app in the external SD card. That means if you install this app in your external card, and in the middle if you remove the card, then there might be unexpected results and might even crash.

The default protocol that this app uses to search for your Roku Player is called SSDP. Its implementation is questionable in Android(i.e., it works but it is flaky). so if the app doesn't find the player, you may have to restart the phone or use the brute search method.

Roku Inc. the maker of Roku player does not endorse this app or have anything to do with this app. This app has been tested with Roku 1,2 & 3 (thanks for feedback from users who tested with Roku 1)This is not for Roku Soundbridge M1000 series.

Features:1. Selectable Remote Layouts:2. Search & Connect3. Control All your Roku players in your network with just one phone and one app.4. Select Your channel from your phone/tablet5. Keyboard Input6. Use Google voice to search instead of typing

Selectable Remote Layouts:It has a two different selectable layout for the remote.Original Skin cannot be resized and has worked good for long.The second layout can be resized to fill your entire screen. Some users asked me that the remote looks so small in their tablet and this second layout can give you bigger buttons.

Search & Connect1. This app uses SSDP protocol to search for the player in your local wireless network.2. If for some reason it cannot find it, then you can you use the brute search method, in which it will search your entire network by pinging for the player.3. Directly enter the IP address of the player that you want to connect

Select & ControlOnce add your Roku players in the list, you can set your default player from the list and control it.

Channel Selection:This app can download the list of your channels with the respective icons/images.You can easily jump to any channels from the remote while you are in the middle of another channel.Just browse for the channels and select it.

Keyboard Input:Use your phone/tablet keyboard to type. This app has the support for the full fledged keyboard. No more up and down arrow keys to type in the TV keyboard. Just type what you want in your phone/tablet and watch the same characters appear as you type

Roku Inc. does not endorse (or have anything else to with) this app.For Roku video streaming players only. Not intended for SoundBridge devices.

Known Issues:Some users complain that the search doesn't always find the players. Once you restart the phone or the player seem to fix it for me (when that happens to me). I'm trying to streamline the entire communication process so that it doesn't get locked up.

Recent changes:11/13/2014the previous release can have an empty channel screen if that is the last screen you closed your app. this fixes that state11/4/2014added permission to read/write to the sd card. in an effort to speed up listing channels faster i'm saving the channel images in the local folder as they are downloaded from the roku.

Use your Android smartphone/tablet to control your Roku player.

Voice search depends on your phone/google to fully understand what you spoke and pass that to the app and then the app sends that as a command to the roku. For example if you cannot successfully use the google voice for google searches then you might have difficulty using the voice feature with this app.

With the recent update i enabled the feature to be able to install the app in the external SD card. That means if you install this app in your external card, and in the middle if you remove the card, then there might be unexpected results and might even crash.

The default protocol that this app uses to search for your Roku Player is called SSDP. Its implementation is questionable in Android(i.e., it works but it is flaky). so if the app doesn't find the player, you may have to restart the phone or use the brute search method.

Roku Inc. the maker of Roku player does not endorse this app or have anything to do with this app. This app has been tested with Roku 1,2 & 3 (thanks for feedback from users who tested with Roku 1)This is not for Roku Soundbridge M1000 series.

Features:1. Selectable Remote Layouts:2. Search & Connect3. Control All your Roku players in your network with just one phone and one app.4. Select Your channel from your phone/tablet5. Keyboard Input6. Use Google voice to search instead of typing

Selectable Remote Layouts:It has a two different selectable layout for the remote.Original Skin cannot be resized and has worked good for long.The second layout can be resized to fill your entire screen. Some users asked me that the remote looks so small in their tablet and this second layout can give you bigger buttons.

Search & Connect1. This app uses SSDP protocol to search for the player in your local wireless network.2. If for some reason it cannot find it, then you can you use the brute search method, in which it will search your entire network by pinging for the player.3. Directly enter the IP address of the player that you want to connect

Select & ControlOnce add your Roku players in the list, you can set your default player from the list and control it.

Channel Selection:This app can download the list of your channels with the respective icons/images.You can easily jump to any channels from the remote while you are in the middle of another channel.Just browse for the channels and select it.

Keyboard Input:Use your phone/tablet keyboard to type. This app has the support for the full fledged keyboard. No more up and down arrow keys to type in the TV keyboard. Just type what you want in your phone/tablet and watch the same characters appear as you type

Roku Inc. does not endorse (or have anything else to with) this app.For Roku video streaming players only. Not intended for SoundBridge devices.

Known Issues:Some users complain that the search doesn't always find the players. Once you restart the phone or the player seem to fix it for me (when that happens to me). I'm trying to streamline the entire communication process so that it doesn't get locked up.

Recent changes:11/13/2014the previous release can have an empty channel screen if that is the last screen you closed your app. this fixes that state11/4/2014added permission to read/write to the sd card. in an effort to speed up listing channels faster i'm saving the channel images in the local folder as they are downloaded from the roku.